BarFly 1.7.3 review
Downloadabc is a text format for the notation of music.
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abc is a text format for the notation of music. BarFly is a text editor which can play abc tunes embedded in text or display them in regular staff notation or in four-line Gregorian chant notation.
It can export pictures of the music, standard midi or audio files, and has lots of useful utility functions, e.g. renumber, transpose, reformat or analyse abc tunes. BarFly supports a number of powerful extensions to the abc language such as multivoice, macros and redefinable symbols, and can handle extremely complex abcs.
BarFly comes with lots of documentation, tutorials and examples.
Here are some key features of "BarFly":
Can display music using shape notes. Both Sacred Harp and Aiken systems are supported.
In multivoice abc you can now use descriptive labels in V: fields, e.g. [V:Treble].
There is a new utility command to convert a whole file of tunes containing old-style V: fields to the newer format.
Added Command-key equivalents for many more menu commands.
The Paste Plain Text command now has its own menu entry.
There is a new Enter Search Text command in the editor.
Limitations:
Startup Delay.
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